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No goats allowed at the slumber party >:[
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MC: What's the hardest thing to say ?
Asra: I was wrong.
Julian: I need help.
Lucio: Worcestershire sauce.
Other than his shitty childhood/upbringing what are some aspects of Lucio you find people forget or don't think about in canon enough?
(This is a long post and I apologize! Sources are from various chapters/Twitter responses from devs/Ask Arcana replies. Might add more later!)
((Edit: just put more in the replies from my main blog so be sure to go read those posts as well!))
He’s canonically disabled
He’s canonically a war veteran
He’s canonically had to deal with the physical, emotional, and psychological effects of having a terminal illness
He canonically had the plague 52-122 times longer than anyone else who contracted it
He canonically had a unique plague manifestation where he displayed symptoms no one else had because of said time frame
He canonically is borderline illiterate
He canonically has an entire portrait gallery where the portraits are all of his animals
He canonically is bothered by the fact that his prosthetic doesn’t feel real enough in how it’s not as sensitive to temperature/pressure
He canonically knows how to say thank you
He canonically had sex with Valerius and at minimal had an intimate physical relationship
He canonically has pyrophobia and despite admitting to having partial amnesia he still remembers his death was “slow and painful”
He canonically loves the occult/occultism and has a high interest in all things magic
He canonically knows how to sprint over snow in heels, even while fully weight-loaded
He canonically was interested in Julian
He canonically gave two street orphans long-standing jobs lasting after his death
He canonically takes a very long time to grow a beard and waxes all his hair below his neck
He canonically has serious makeup skills
He canonically enjoys interior decorating and fashion design, particularly planning parties
He canonically takes a luxury bath roughly twice a day as part of his self care regimen
He canonically dislikes beetles and worms
He canonically used to go on raids as a child and at the time was proficient in battle axes
He canonically led a successful gang of mercenaries as an 18-20 year old
He canonically has a terrible sense of direction and would often get lost
He canonically knows how to make moonshine/bootleg liquor from berries
He canonically loves MC no matter what
.5 seconds before the ritual goes awry because Asra replaced Lucio's blood with pomegranate juice
So, I know people stan Morga real hard on Tumblr, but... can we talk about the implications of this chapter? Because I’m feeling like despite being a woman, Morga’s got a real hard ‘toxic masculinity’ vibe going for her. I get that their culture is different from ours, but looking at this with a modern lens:
- She speaks of repeatedly saving her son and that being a bad thing, going as far as to say she should have let him die rather than save him again. Again, this is while he was a child.
- Her only favorable comments towards the PC (that I have seen, even in the other routes) are when they express a willingness for action or are generally confrontational.
- Says that if Lucio had killed his father in honorable combat she would have approved.
- Views the whole situation as her fault for ‘coddling him’, giving Lucio no agency as a person whatsoever.
And despite that... Lucio’s here in the snow, crying, convinced no one would save him. He constantly seeks affection and praise, making it a reasonable assumption that that’s something that’s been lacking from key figures in his background. He views this as ‘love’, again, leading to a conclusion that real love, unconditional love... isn’t something he’s experienced.
And throughout it all, Morga is here, ready to kill him, convinced he’s this way because she loved him too much.
Holy. Shit.
I love Morga as a character, but I don’t even know where to start with that.
Lucio’s got some issues. Don’t get me wrong, the man is a selfish, attention-whoring, whiny brat sometimes. But, I have to say... I’m starting to get why.
Yeeeep that tracks
Julian wtf are you doing
The Arcana click and drag game!
If you told me a year ago that out of all Arcana characters Lucio would be the one to make my heart hurt the most… I would laugh in your face
More Pirate Lusha AU because I didn’t realise how much I liked this dynamic
[Bonus under the cut]
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VANILLA GREEK YOGURT AHAHHHH
My Partner Reacts to Arcana Characters with a Little Context
A few of you asked and you shall receive 😌
I’ve talked about Arcana quite a bit with my partner so they know lil bits here and there
We’ll start with the main 6
I can’t believe they did Asra like this 😔
Thought Nadia looked like widow maker ok, I mean in some ways she is..... a widow
I CANT BELIEVE YOU DID MY MANS LIKE THIS
Muriel: Sad Mountain Man
THE WAY THATS SO ACCURATE THO
DRIP GOD, also accurate
Finally
Im so disappointed 😔😔
I love Asra too but Julian just hits different yknow?
Y'all please reblog from this post instead, op had to remake their account
Portrait of a really bad ruler and a really bad end where he wins
I want horns. Not for the aesthetic, but for the purpose of ramming head first into people I don’t like, potentially harming and killing them to death
I'm a Lucio enjoyer, but I also think the man fully deserves all the clowning he gets.
He made a lot of things far worse, caused a lot of suffering, his actions weren't ones you can just sweep under the rug by saying "oh he's a good guy now and very sorry for what he did". Imo if all he gets is some very earned criticism and/or mockery (especially from the other LIs, most of them he actively hurt), he's still getting off pretty easy.
I like a redeemed villain as much as the next person, but the whole concept/trope really loses something when suddenly actions no longer have consequences. He shouldn't escape them all with a sudden change of heart, no one should.
Anyway he's an adult, he can definitely handle a few jokes at his expense.
There are cool lucio stans but there are also the combative and over-protective ones who bristle at every instance of lucio getting (even lovingly) clowned on
First time?
wait wait wait wait
are you telling me lucio caused the plague. surely not. oh no oh nononono
devil lucio: *exists*
me: *putting on my clown makeup*
lucio and the apprentice are fine thanks, valdemar who?